Cigar-coloring machine



(No Model.)

N. DU BRUL.

CIGAR COLORING MACHINE.

.Patented Nov. 1,1881.

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PATENT OFFICE..

NAPOLEON DU BBUL, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

ClGAR-COLORING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 249,029, dated November 1, 1881.

Application tiled April 16, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NAPOLEON DU BRUL, of Cincinnati, Hamilton county, Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Machines for Coloring Cigars, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in those machines or devices l'or coloring or coloring and tlavoring cigars in which the color ing-matter is applied by an automatic rolling action of the cigar in contact with a pervious and elasticcushion saturated with the material employed.

ln my improvement the opposing surfaces of the rolling and color-imparting members are planes, of which one is provided with four adjusting-screws or adjustable rests, and is capable of being set parallel to or at any desired longitudinal orlateral inclination with the other` member under every adjustment ot' distance therefrom. The employment of plane or lat operative surfaces enables them to be protracted to any extent that may be necessary for prolonged and efficient action without inconvenient bulkiness of machinery or the location ofeith er the feedi'n-gor the delivering opening at an inaccessible distance from a single attendant.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a longitudinal and Fig. 2 a transverse section of a machine embodying my invention.

.Iournaled horizontally in a suitable frame, A, are two sprockets, B B', around which is stretched any suitable endless apron, C. The web c of this apron may consist of rubber belting-cloth, to whose interior surface is attached a series of cross slats or stretchers, c', which, besides holding the apron to its proper width, engage in the notches b of the sprockets, so as to enable one of them, B, to impel the apron. Attached to the outer surface of the said apron is a lamina ot' sponge, D, or other bibulous -and elastic material. -Undernrath the upper portion ofthe apron is a tat support or shelf, E.

To the impelling-sprocket B, is attached a suitable crank, winch, or handle, F, or a driving wheel or pulley, G.

The apron may be maintained at its proper tension either by a gravitating idler, H, or by making the bearings of one of the sprockets adjustable relatively to the other.

Screw-threaded lugs I, that extend horizontally outward from the frame A, receive adjustable screw-threaded rests, gages, or bearings J, preferably four in number, for the stationary member or platen K, which member is liat or plane, as shown.

The underlsurtace or operative face of platen K may be clothed by a layer of sponge, or by tiannel, serge, or any other suitable material.

L is a reservoir for the coloring or coloring and ljavoring material, and communicates at bottom with a rose or perforated pipe, M, from which said material drips in the desired quantity to saturate the spongy cushion D for the purpose ot' the machine.

In my preferred form the platen K presses by its Weight on the procession ot' cigars, which are rolled along underneath it by the action ot' the apron; butto this pressure an absolute limit is set by the adjustable gages J. The flatness of the co-operating surfaces enables them to be set and maintained absolutely parallel or at' any desired convergence toward the delivering end, whatever the distance which separates them, and they may by means of the gages J be set at any distance asunder without disturbing such parallelism or convergence.

N and O i espectively representsuitable t'eeding and delivering chutes.

The pressure ofplaten K, instead of gravity, may depend in whole or part on springs.

Instead of the four adjustable rests, two only may be employed at or about the machines mid-length.

Asuitable chain or other device may be used instead of the driving-slats c.

I claim as new and ot' my invention-- 1. The combination of an endless apron, C, composed of or faced with bibulous and elastic material, a yielding flat platen, K, parallel or nearly parallel to said apron, means for supply of coloring, an apron-operating mechanism, and devices for feeding and delivering cigars, substantially as set forth.

2. Thefouradjustablcrestsorgages J, adapted to limit the downward play ot' the platen, in combination with the vertically -yielding gravitating platen K and endless apron, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony of which invention I hereunto set my hand.

NAPOLEON DU BRUL.

Attest:

GEO. H. KNIGHT, SAML. S. CARPENTER.

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